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Chennai streets

On way to Varanasi

February 12th 2007
7 weeks to go in India and I'm still down in Tamil Nadu, having procrastinated on booking my train ticket to Varanasi and then not being able to get on a train for 10 days. I caught a train to Chennai on 29 Jan. I would have thought I'd got used to the fact that normally in India the beginnings and ends of journeys (and often the middle) are full of drama, but I arrived hopefully on the platf ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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